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Are CWO's about to be abolished?

  • 28-08-2014 10:30pm
    #1
    Nomis21
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    After a successful pilot and the introduction of HAP (Housing Assistance Payment) next year with local councils taking over the administration of rent subsidy to low income earners from The CWO in health centres, is this a means to reduce the usefulness of the CWO's and therefore an excuse to abolish the position altogether to save costs?

    Is the renaming of the CWO job to "Representative of the DSP" another easing of their role into the general administration of the DSP?

    Reductions have already been made to the service with many smaller centres amalgamated into DSP offices and HAP seems to me to be an opportunity to amalgamate the rest of them.

    Countries like the UK do not have CWO's. Politicians will not have failed to notice this.


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  • #2
    AlekSmart
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    Nomis21 wrote: »
    After a successful pilot and the introduction of HAP (Housing Assistance Payment) next year with local councils taking over the administration of rent subsidy to low income earners from The CWO in health centres, is this a means to reduce the usefulness of the CWO's and therefore an excuse to abolish the position altogether to save costs?

    Is the renaming of the CWO job to "Representative of the DSP" another easing of their role into the general administration of the DSP?

    Reductions have already been made to the service with many smaller centres amalgamated into DSP offices and HAP seems to me to be an opportunity to amalgamate the rest of them.

    Countries like the UK do not have CWO's. Politicians will not have failed to notice this.

    Interesting question for sure.

    One would wonder whether the CWO's have been a victim of their own success,or perhaps it may be to do with a perception that the CWO network was being used to circumvent some of the DSP's own systems ?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #3
    Nomis21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Nomis21


    In a town where I live, about 12 kms from the nearest DSP office, the CWO provides a very important service to the community. She knows people on a personal level. As well as knowing the personal situation of all claimants, she is also often well informed on a local level about individual cases and I'm sure she saves the equivalent in her own wages in reducing fraudulent claims.

    I don't see any great conspiracy here, just a taking over of the functions of the CWO by local DSP offices and other agencies and the eventual abolishing of the CWO function for one reason only: to save money. I think it will be a sad loss and Government are aware the loss is only to those less well off in society.

    The CWO has been a great help to me. I will be sorry to see this service discontinued.


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